A 15 metre text-based mural located in an inner city laneway, Ten Dicta For Young Women Who Are Artists was the first large-scale public work I had ever undertaken, as well as the first derived directly from my own published non-fiction writing. It was commissioned for the City of Melbourne by Robert Doyle, the Right Honourable Lord Mayor. The work was a deliberate move away from my figurative, Pop-inflected enamel painting to text-based, polemical 'interventions' inspired by my engagement with social media. Coincidentally, completion of the mural coincided with the publication of The Best Australian Essays 2013(published by Black Inc.), which included my short memoir, Broken. First published in The Sydney Morning Herald and Griffith Review, Brokenprovoked national attention to teenage sexual manipulation in schools. The anthology also included essays by Robert Dessaix, Helen Garner, Tim Flannery, Murray Bail and Julian Assange.